I watched the meteor shower last year (which was incredible btw..) from the village of Trout Run, PA. Trout Run is in north central PA, about 20 miles from Williamsport (the closest town of any size). Trout Run has a gas station and a restaraunt that are open 24 hours a day, so they have normal "gas station" type lights. However, I was watching the meteor shower from camp susque which is about 4 miles down the valley, and it isn't a straight valley either...anyhow, we took a lot of pictures and in several of them, there is a SIGNIFICANT glow from the SINGLE gas station that is over 4 MILES away and partially obscured by mountains! It blew my mind..I didn't realize how bad light pollution was until then...I don't think there is any place in the US where you can get a truly dark sky.
I saw the shower last year and it was incredible. We saw hundreds if not thousands of meteors. At some points, you couldn't look anywhere in the sky and *not* see a meteor. It was truly amazing. If this year is half as good as last year, it should be pretty cool.
However, no matter how many meteors there are and how often they come, it seems to be VERY difficult to capture them on film. Using an SLR camera with a cable release and a tripod, a friend and I used something like 5 rolls of films and probably only got 15-20 usable pictures that had meteors in. (You can check them out here at peterswift.org. And they weren't joking about light pollution either! We were pretty far out in the country in North Central PA at Camp Susque, but even the lights from a tiny town with one gas station and a restaraunt really made a lot of the pictures have big bright spots (and the town/village was about 3-4 miles away!).
while forcing the rest of the world to download the warez version,
I don't see how this forces the rest of the world to download the illegal version...you don't have a "right" to the movie or a "right" to watch it. You aren't being "forced" to illegally download it. No one is holding a gun to your head...if you download it illegally, you've downloaded it illegally. You can't use "the legal download service wasn't available for me so I was forced into a life of crime" excuse..that is just plain ridiculous. Stop whining and get on with life.
The 33 years thing is (should be) the cycle of the comet that creates the dust clouds we pass through. We will have leonid meteor showers every year, but the 33 year cycle determines how great the display is. We aren't guaranteed a phenomonal display every 33 years, it is just more likely. *shrug* It is confusing. However, if you want to see my pics from last year's shower (I finally got them uploaded), go to my webpage.
Yeah, I'm from north central PA (near williamsport..though I'm attending PSU in january...)...and the view from Camp Susque was incredible. We're shielded from light pollutions by mountains (though it does slightly limit your field of vision), but it was still incredible. We took a lot of pictures, and a lot of them turned out spectactular (we have some pictures of both the meteor, and the reflection of the meteor in our pond..along with the camp's observatory in the background. I'll have a bunch of the pictures we took up on my website (They were mostly taken by a friend..not me) sometime this evening, so make sure you check out peterswift.org sometime this evening for the pictures.
con? Maybe you live in australia or something, but I saw TONS of meteors last year. It was probably the most amazing thing I've seen in the sky (other than this daytime fireball from last summer)...I've got tons of pictures that I'll be posting to my website later tonight when I get home...as you'll be able to tell from the pictures, there was a lot more than one or two shooting stars (several pictures we took have up to 5 at once!). Check the space forecast for your area. Not all places in the world will have a good view of it...
last year it was over 40/minute at times. I saw it at Camp Susque, which is sorrounded by mountains (which means not too much light pollution...but..you also have limited viewing). We got some great pictures of them too..check my webpage later this evening and a lot of them will be posted...Last year was incredible..best I've ever seen it....we couldn't look anywhere and *not* see meteors at its peak (and several fireballs!). I plan on going out again this year....if it is half as good as last year, it will be mighty impressive.
In eighth grade, my science class was using a program called "ISCS" which stands for some sort of "independant study curriculum science" or something like that. Basically, we were split up into lab partners, given books and set to work. There was no limit to the amount of chapters you could get done, and my lab partner and I were very competitive and we wanted to be the first people to complete the book in the year. Towards the end of the book we were on chapters that required chemicals that our teacher hadn't mixed for us yet, so he generally let us use the chemicals straight from the stock jars in high concentration...he would just have us use much less of them or he would have us mix our own stock solutions. Generally, all the chemicals got thrown down the sink (a science lab sink that had containment below the floor for the organic stuff or something) with liberal amounts of water. However, when we reached chapter 23 we had to do an expirement that required sulfuric acid, sodium thiosulfate and "winkler's" solutions 1 and 2. The teacher gave us the straight solution without diluting it...telling us to be VERY careful because it was both expensive and dangerous (he didn't want to bother making a diluted solution because no one else was expected to reach that chapter and it would be wasted). So, we completed the expirement and proceeded to the sink where we planned on pouring out our extra chemicals. When I tipped the beaker of sulfuric acid...something interesting happened...all of a sudden there was a loud hissing sound and a HUGE cloud of purple gas throughout the room. I heard the teacher yell and the class headed toward the exit immediately. In the end, the class had to be evacuated (indeed, the whole science area) and the teacher (kindly) explained to me the dangers of pouring sulfuric acid down the sink and showed me the proper place for it.
Suffice to say, my lab partner and I were the first people to ever finish the entire book in one year and we finished it with over 5 weeks to spare. So, in the time that we expected to have fun and fool around, the teacher had us mix stock solutions of sodium hydroxide instead...which, if you couldn't guess, is incredibly boring.
I used to teach an activity class at Camp Susque called "The Wonder of it All" which was basically neat science expirements with the explanations. To begin every week, all the counselors would do a short skit to excite the campers about the activities. I did a skit called "red eye." I'm not sure who had the idea originally, I sure didn't make it up, but the skit was always incredible and wowed the kids.
Here's the synopsis of the skit, I'll explain how it works afterwords:
Sitting at a table is a bartender...washing his glasses. A rough looking character walks in and demands a glass of redeye (pink lemonade works better and is more funny). The bartender grabs a pitcher full of clear liquid and pours it into an empty glass. The glass fills up with a red/pinkish liquid. Another guy walks in, a city slicker, and asks for some water. The bartender, pouring from the same pitcher, pours a glass of "water" into an empty glass. The rough looking guy laughs at the city slicker and tells him he should try the lemonade, and that he'd pay for a new round. The bartender grabs both glasses, pours them into the pitcher (the liquid turns pink), and the bartender pours out two glasses of the pink liquid. At this point, a sheriff walks in and asks for some water. The bartender pours the pink liquid into an empty glass and the liquid instantly turns clear as it is poured in. (A lot of wows from the audience at this time). Here's the big finally: The sheriff says that lemonade is bad for you and that the two guys should try some water. The guys (strangely) agree and give their glasses of pink liquid to the bartender. The sheriff also hands his glass to the bartender and says he'll pay for the round of waters. The bartender pours the sheriff's "water" back in the pitcher which instantly turns into a clear liquid. After that, the bartender (slowly because it looks so cool) pours the pink liquids into the container (so you see a pink liquid pouring in and it becomes clear the instant it touches the water...looks very cool). The bartender then pours out a round of "water" to the three customers. *curtain* *Applause*
The effect of this trick is pretty dramatic (without blowing anything up!), and it is QUITE simple with no special chemicals needed. The only things you need are ExLax, rubbing alcohol, and white vinegar, ammonia and water. To prepare, I would take and exlax pill and grind it up and mix it in a quarter cup of alcohol. This would provide enough solution for 10-20 skits. The mixture you just created is poor-man's phenolphthalein, a chemical that detects acid and turns red when it finds it.
Prep: Get three clear glasses and a pitcher. Take the phenolphthalein and put a few drops (10-15) in the bottom of a clear glass (the ruffian's glass). Put about twice that much ammonia in the bottom of the sheriff's glass. Leave the cityslicker's glass empty and unchanged. In the pitcher, add a few drops of white vinegar to about a quart of water.
How it works: when you pour the vinegar water into the ruffians glass, the phenolphthalein makes it turn a bright pink/red. When you pour it back into the pitcher (before pouring the lemonade for both the cityslicker and the ruffian), it will turn the entire pitcher to a bright pink. When you pour the vinegar/phenolphthalein water into the sheriff's glass, the ammonia (a basic substance) neutralizes the acid and the phenolphthalein will no longer be red...so the sheriff will have clear water. When you pour the sheriff's "water" back into the pitcher, any remaining pink water turns clear and as you pour the other two glasses of pink water in, they will be neutralized. Leaving you with a clear neutralized liquid.
Again, the skit works great and it is a lot of fun...however, a few things to remember: practise it a couple of times to get the amounts down right (I always estimated with the amounts, so I'm not sure if my drops and measurements are right), and DON'T DRINK THE LIQUIDS! Ammonia is not good for you and vinegar is nasty. One more thing..I know ex-lax was taken off the market for a while because it was supposedly carcinegenic. I think the chemical that was problematic was phenolphthalein....so, I don't know if exlax can make poor-man's phenolphthalein anymore. Try it out (even w/o phenolphthalein, the replacement might do the trick), and if it doesn't work, just buy some regular phenolphthalein from a pharmacy or chemical supply house (it isn't uncommon...I remember using it in 7th grade chemistry).
Another couple of cool hand's on expirements we did in the class were simple bakingsoda/vinegar expirements using film canisters (make sure they are the lids that pop into the container, not that ones that have the lid that goes on the outside)...add a bit of vinegar in the container, put some baking soda in the lid, pop the lid on, shake it, throw it...BOOM!
Other expirements included balloon rockets, water rockets (with an air pump and 2 liter soda bottles...you could get the suckers to shoot REALLY high!), polymers (magician's slush powder makes it even better) that soak up 100 times their weight in water, cornstarch and water (makes a pseudo solid...hard under pressure but liquid when released), making huge epson salt crystals on pipe cleaners, etc...etc. I'll think of some more, but if any of those expirements sound like fun and you need more info on them, shoot me an email [peter@peterswift.nospam.org] and I can give you detailed instructions on each one.
Still anything with explosions, dry ice, liquid nitrogen etc still seem to be crowd favorites.
Another crowd pleased is covering your arm with rubbing alcohol and igniting it and running around screaming then say it didn't hurt at all (make SURE YOU SHAVE YOUR ARM FIRST! ARM HAIR BURNS AND HURTS A LOT...not speaking from experience or anything *cough*).
even more fun is using liquid nitrogen to freeze natural gas or propane. I remember having some great fun using a bunsen burner hose and bubbling the gas through liquid nitrogen to cause the natural gas to become liquid. After we had about half a cup of liquid natural gas, we went into a dark hallway, lit it on fire and poured it out. It was pretty neat, it looked like liquid flames rolling across the floor and up the walls where it hit. Recreating the expirement later, I managed to get some on my jeans..however, after a second or so the liquid burned off and there was no burning on my jeans (I assume it is similar to alcohol and the gas is what actually burns...).
Just proves that you can play with fire and liquid nitrogen at the same time.
There's a great review of the iPod on Jesusgeeks.net from the founder (gregday). He uses the iPod under linux and has a list of the programs he used, how he used them, and how it all worked out. To see the iPod review/howto, go here.
Personally, I can't wait to get an iPod. For a while I've been dealing with a crappy mp3-cd player, but after reading so much about the iPod, I'm ready to make the switch as soon as I have the cash. 299 doesn't sound too bad for 5 gigs of mp3 storage. And it runs under linux! woohoo.
yup...its a part time job..full time positions get 10-12. I'm just working a semester before I start college...however, I might be moving up in the world..I might become a "wireless installer" for the company which pays more (I hope).
Its also a small ISP, so the call load isn't severe (occasionally I can go an hour or so with no calls).
The little cars are pretty cool, but for a few more bucks (ok, 50 more bucks) you can buy the mini desktop rover which is pretty cool, can be computer controlled, has tracks instead of wheels, can crawl over your keyboard and can even play lazer tag if you get a couple of them together.
My friend got one of these in an airport a while back and it freaking rocks. He can do all sorts of things with it, and it is totally customizable...you can even get different gears for it to do tricks and whatnot. This is awesome..I just got paid today (tech support *is* worth 8 bucks an hour I guess)...so I'm gonna try and pick one of these up on the way home! Woohoo!
*shrug* I still use Win98 (and I love it! Far better than that Me crap...though I plan on upgradng to 2000pro eventually..not XP), and I use gimp, and I haven't had any problems except when I first started. However, the friendly people at GIMP.org had some pointers for running The GIMP and windows....in fact, on the downloads page there is a file that you need to replace when running 98 to make it work properly. After I followed the instructions and whatnot, it works beautifally.
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ummm..if they can drop tanks and hummers, they can surely drop an empty greyhound.
#1. This isn't a competition...this is just a comparison of how many people are on the net.
#2 The reason I question it is because I am, quite frankly, very surprised. I knew that much of europe was very...umm...internetted?....but I didn't realize how vast the number was. It could be true...prolly is...but it is just very surprising to me. Example: your best friend calls and says he won the lottery, first thing you say is gonna be "Are you serious?" or "Yeah Right" or "Really?" So basically, people question information that surprises them. There is no winning or losing about it.
Funny how some Europeans seem to want to make everything into a competition...
According to The UN Population People, Europe has a population of 727,304,000. This is compared to the 270-280 million in the US. So, Europe practically triples the US in size. However, I think that if there were more European net users than US net users, then there would be FAR more hits on varius websites from Europeans than Americans. *shrug* I wonder if this NUA place is counting people that are behind firewalls in business networks and whatnot.
Ok, this coming from a european based company? According to Irish-based industry monitor Nua.com,
That's like me saying that I did a study that shows that I'm the best.
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I watched the meteor shower last year (which was incredible btw..) from the village of Trout Run, PA. Trout Run is in north central PA, about 20 miles from Williamsport (the closest town of any size). Trout Run has a gas station and a restaraunt that are open 24 hours a day, so they have normal "gas station" type lights. However, I was watching the meteor shower from camp susque which is about 4 miles down the valley, and it isn't a straight valley either...anyhow, we took a lot of pictures and in several of them, there is a SIGNIFICANT glow from the SINGLE gas station that is over 4 MILES away and partially obscured by mountains! It blew my mind..I didn't realize how bad light pollution was until then...I don't think there is any place in the US where you can get a truly dark sky.
I saw the shower last year and it was incredible. We saw hundreds if not thousands of meteors. At some points, you couldn't look anywhere in the sky and *not* see a meteor. It was truly amazing. If this year is half as good as last year, it should be pretty cool.
However, no matter how many meteors there are and how often they come, it seems to be VERY difficult to capture them on film. Using an SLR camera with a cable release and a tripod, a friend and I used something like 5 rolls of films and probably only got 15-20 usable pictures that had meteors in. (You can check them out here at peterswift.org. And they weren't joking about light pollution either! We were pretty far out in the country in North Central PA at Camp Susque, but even the lights from a tiny town with one gas station and a restaraunt really made a lot of the pictures have big bright spots (and the town/village was about 3-4 miles away!).
while forcing the rest of the world to download the warez version,
I don't see how this forces the rest of the world to download the illegal version...you don't have a "right" to the movie or a "right" to watch it. You aren't being "forced" to illegally download it. No one is holding a gun to your head...if you download it illegally, you've downloaded it illegally. You can't use "the legal download service wasn't available for me so I was forced into a life of crime" excuse..that is just plain ridiculous. Stop whining and get on with life.
I finally got around to actually uploading the images tonight (this morning?)...if you want to see them, go here.
I finally uploaded the images: here
The 33 years thing is (should be) the cycle of the comet that creates the dust clouds we pass through. We will have leonid meteor showers every year, but the 33 year cycle determines how great the display is. We aren't guaranteed a phenomonal display every 33 years, it is just more likely. *shrug* It is confusing. However, if you want to see my pics from last year's shower (I finally got them uploaded), go to my webpage.
Yeah, I'm from north central PA (near williamsport..though I'm attending PSU in january...)...and the view from Camp Susque was incredible. We're shielded from light pollutions by mountains (though it does slightly limit your field of vision), but it was still incredible. We took a lot of pictures, and a lot of them turned out spectactular (we have some pictures of both the meteor, and the reflection of the meteor in our pond..along with the camp's observatory in the background. I'll have a bunch of the pictures we took up on my website (They were mostly taken by a friend..not me) sometime this evening, so make sure you check out peterswift.org sometime this evening for the pictures.
con? Maybe you live in australia or something, but I saw TONS of meteors last year. It was probably the most amazing thing I've seen in the sky (other than this daytime fireball from last summer)...I've got tons of pictures that I'll be posting to my website later tonight when I get home...as you'll be able to tell from the pictures, there was a lot more than one or two shooting stars (several pictures we took have up to 5 at once!). Check the space forecast for your area. Not all places in the world will have a good view of it...
last year it was over 40/minute at times. I saw it at Camp Susque, which is sorrounded by mountains (which means not too much light pollution...but..you also have limited viewing). We got some great pictures of them too..check my webpage later this evening and a lot of them will be posted...Last year was incredible..best I've ever seen it....we couldn't look anywhere and *not* see meteors at its peak (and several fireballs!). I plan on going out again this year....if it is half as good as last year, it will be mighty impressive.
In eighth grade, my science class was using a program called "ISCS" which stands for some sort of "independant study curriculum science" or something like that. Basically, we were split up into lab partners, given books and set to work. There was no limit to the amount of chapters you could get done, and my lab partner and I were very competitive and we wanted to be the first people to complete the book in the year. Towards the end of the book we were on chapters that required chemicals that our teacher hadn't mixed for us yet, so he generally let us use the chemicals straight from the stock jars in high concentration...he would just have us use much less of them or he would have us mix our own stock solutions. Generally, all the chemicals got thrown down the sink (a science lab sink that had containment below the floor for the organic stuff or something) with liberal amounts of water. However, when we reached chapter 23 we had to do an expirement that required sulfuric acid, sodium thiosulfate and "winkler's" solutions 1 and 2. The teacher gave us the straight solution without diluting it...telling us to be VERY careful because it was both expensive and dangerous (he didn't want to bother making a diluted solution because no one else was expected to reach that chapter and it would be wasted). So, we completed the expirement and proceeded to the sink where we planned on pouring out our extra chemicals. When I tipped the beaker of sulfuric acid...something interesting happened...all of a sudden there was a loud hissing sound and a HUGE cloud of purple gas throughout the room. I heard the teacher yell and the class headed toward the exit immediately. In the end, the class had to be evacuated (indeed, the whole science area) and the teacher (kindly) explained to me the dangers of pouring sulfuric acid down the sink and showed me the proper place for it.
Suffice to say, my lab partner and I were the first people to ever finish the entire book in one year and we finished it with over 5 weeks to spare. So, in the time that we expected to have fun and fool around, the teacher had us mix stock solutions of sodium hydroxide instead...which, if you couldn't guess, is incredibly boring.
I used to teach an activity class at Camp Susque called "The Wonder of it All" which was basically neat science expirements with the explanations. To begin every week, all the counselors would do a short skit to excite the campers about the activities. I did a skit called "red eye." I'm not sure who had the idea originally, I sure didn't make it up, but the skit was always incredible and wowed the kids.
Here's the synopsis of the skit, I'll explain how it works afterwords:
Sitting at a table is a bartender...washing his glasses. A rough looking character walks in and demands a glass of redeye (pink lemonade works better and is more funny). The bartender grabs a pitcher full of clear liquid and pours it into an empty glass. The glass fills up with a red/pinkish liquid. Another guy walks in, a city slicker, and asks for some water. The bartender, pouring from the same pitcher, pours a glass of "water" into an empty glass. The rough looking guy laughs at the city slicker and tells him he should try the lemonade, and that he'd pay for a new round. The bartender grabs both glasses, pours them into the pitcher (the liquid turns pink), and the bartender pours out two glasses of the pink liquid. At this point, a sheriff walks in and asks for some water. The bartender pours the pink liquid into an empty glass and the liquid instantly turns clear as it is poured in. (A lot of wows from the audience at this time). Here's the big finally: The sheriff says that lemonade is bad for you and that the two guys should try some water. The guys (strangely) agree and give their glasses of pink liquid to the bartender. The sheriff also hands his glass to the bartender and says he'll pay for the round of waters. The bartender pours the sheriff's "water" back in the pitcher which instantly turns into a clear liquid. After that, the bartender (slowly because it looks so cool) pours the pink liquids into the container (so you see a pink liquid pouring in and it becomes clear the instant it touches the water...looks very cool). The bartender then pours out a round of "water" to the three customers. *curtain* *Applause*
The effect of this trick is pretty dramatic (without blowing anything up!), and it is QUITE simple with no special chemicals needed. The only things you need are ExLax, rubbing alcohol, and white vinegar, ammonia and water. To prepare, I would take and exlax pill and grind it up and mix it in a quarter cup of alcohol. This would provide enough solution for 10-20 skits. The mixture you just created is poor-man's phenolphthalein, a chemical that detects acid and turns red when it finds it.
Prep: Get three clear glasses and a pitcher. Take the phenolphthalein and put a few drops (10-15) in the bottom of a clear glass (the ruffian's glass). Put about twice that much ammonia in the bottom of the sheriff's glass. Leave the cityslicker's glass empty and unchanged. In the pitcher, add a few drops of white vinegar to about a quart of water.
How it works: when you pour the vinegar water into the ruffians glass, the phenolphthalein makes it turn a bright pink/red. When you pour it back into the pitcher (before pouring the lemonade for both the cityslicker and the ruffian), it will turn the entire pitcher to a bright pink. When you pour the vinegar/phenolphthalein water into the sheriff's glass, the ammonia (a basic substance) neutralizes the acid and the phenolphthalein will no longer be red...so the sheriff will have clear water. When you pour the sheriff's "water" back into the pitcher, any remaining pink water turns clear and as you pour the other two glasses of pink water in, they will be neutralized. Leaving you with a clear neutralized liquid.
Again, the skit works great and it is a lot of fun...however, a few things to remember: practise it a couple of times to get the amounts down right (I always estimated with the amounts, so I'm not sure if my drops and measurements are right), and DON'T DRINK THE LIQUIDS! Ammonia is not good for you and vinegar is nasty. One more thing..I know ex-lax was taken off the market for a while because it was supposedly carcinegenic. I think the chemical that was problematic was phenolphthalein....so, I don't know if exlax can make poor-man's phenolphthalein anymore. Try it out (even w/o phenolphthalein, the replacement might do the trick), and if it doesn't work, just buy some regular phenolphthalein from a pharmacy or chemical supply house (it isn't uncommon...I remember using it in 7th grade chemistry).
Another couple of cool hand's on expirements we did in the class were simple bakingsoda/vinegar expirements using film canisters (make sure they are the lids that pop into the container, not that ones that have the lid that goes on the outside)...add a bit of vinegar in the container, put some baking soda in the lid, pop the lid on, shake it, throw it...BOOM!
Other expirements included balloon rockets, water rockets (with an air pump and 2 liter soda bottles...you could get the suckers to shoot REALLY high!), polymers (magician's slush powder makes it even better) that soak up 100 times their weight in water, cornstarch and water (makes a pseudo solid...hard under pressure but liquid when released), making huge epson salt crystals on pipe cleaners, etc...etc. I'll think of some more, but if any of those expirements sound like fun and you need more info on them, shoot me an email [peter@peterswift.nospam.org] and I can give you detailed instructions on each one.
Still anything with explosions, dry ice, liquid nitrogen etc still seem to be crowd favorites.
Another crowd pleased is covering your arm with rubbing alcohol and igniting it and running around screaming then say it didn't hurt at all (make SURE YOU SHAVE YOUR ARM FIRST! ARM HAIR BURNS AND HURTS A LOT...not speaking from experience or anything *cough*).
even more fun is using liquid nitrogen to freeze natural gas or propane. I remember having some great fun using a bunsen burner hose and bubbling the gas through liquid nitrogen to cause the natural gas to become liquid. After we had about half a cup of liquid natural gas, we went into a dark hallway, lit it on fire and poured it out. It was pretty neat, it looked like liquid flames rolling across the floor and up the walls where it hit. Recreating the expirement later, I managed to get some on my jeans..however, after a second or so the liquid burned off and there was no burning on my jeans (I assume it is similar to alcohol and the gas is what actually burns...).
Just proves that you can play with fire and liquid nitrogen at the same time.
There's a great review of the iPod on Jesusgeeks.net from the founder (gregday). He uses the iPod under linux and has a list of the programs he used, how he used them, and how it all worked out. To see the iPod review/howto, go here.
Personally, I can't wait to get an iPod. For a while I've been dealing with a crappy mp3-cd player, but after reading so much about the iPod, I'm ready to make the switch as soon as I have the cash. 299 doesn't sound too bad for 5 gigs of mp3 storage. And it runs under linux! woohoo.
yeah...but lazer tag! And it can be computer controlled...though the zip cars look pretty cool.
yup...its a part time job..full time positions get 10-12. I'm just working a semester before I start college...however, I might be moving up in the world..I might become a "wireless installer" for the company which pays more (I hope).
Its also a small ISP, so the call load isn't severe (occasionally I can go an hour or so with no calls).
The little cars are pretty cool, but for a few more bucks (ok, 50 more bucks) you can buy the mini desktop rover which is pretty cool, can be computer controlled, has tracks instead of wheels, can crawl over your keyboard and can even play lazer tag if you get a couple of them together.
My friend got one of these in an airport a while back and it freaking rocks. He can do all sorts of things with it, and it is totally customizable...you can even get different gears for it to do tricks and whatnot. This is awesome..I just got paid today (tech support *is* worth 8 bucks an hour I guess)...so I'm gonna try and pick one of these up on the way home! Woohoo!
I'm not certain, but I'm pretty sure this study is being used to combat that bill....I think that was the purpose of it.
*shrug* I still use Win98 (and I love it! Far better than that Me crap...though I plan on upgradng to 2000pro eventually..not XP), and I use gimp, and I haven't had any problems except when I first started. However, the friendly people at GIMP.org had some pointers for running The GIMP and windows....in fact, on the downloads page there is a file that you need to replace when running 98 to make it work properly. After I followed the instructions and whatnot, it works beautifally.
ummm..if they can drop tanks and hummers, they can surely drop an empty greyhound.
who said it was a competition? I'm just questioning something that is very surprising to me. See This comment to see what I mean.
#1. This isn't a competition...this is just a comparison of how many people are on the net.
#2 The reason I question it is because I am, quite frankly, very surprised. I knew that much of europe was very...umm...internetted?....but I didn't realize how vast the number was. It could be true...prolly is...but it is just very surprising to me.
Example: your best friend calls and says he won the lottery, first thing you say is gonna be "Are you serious?" or "Yeah Right" or "Really?" So basically, people question information that surprises them. There is no winning or losing about it.
Funny how some Europeans seem to want to make everything into a competition...
in my case that holds true..I must be the best. :)
/me looks down at his stomach...
According to The UN Population People, Europe has a population of 727,304,000. This is compared to the 270-280 million in the US. So, Europe practically triples the US in size. However, I think that if there were more European net users than US net users, then there would be FAR more hits on varius websites from Europeans than Americans. *shrug* I wonder if this NUA place is counting people that are behind firewalls in business networks and whatnot.
Ok, this coming from a european based company?
According to Irish-based industry monitor Nua.com,
That's like me saying that I did a study that shows that I'm the best.